Read more about this challenge in the links: https://www.vemw.nl/ and https://www.volkskrant.nl and MLOEA
The Energy Transition in the Netherlands is well on its way. Various projects are being developed; there is ample SDE support available and many households, businesses and industrials are eager to “off take” green power. The result; on the one hand steady growth in renewable generation and on the other a grid network which is struggling to keep up. Currently there are huge delays in getting grid connections at the locations where renewable generation is installed.
Read more about this challenge in the links: https://www.vemw.nl/ and https://www.volkskrant.nl and MLOEA
The situation:
The problem
The solution
Are there downsides to combining two different technologies especially when it is a combination of wind and solar technologies? Are there associated costs? How can you deal with the costs associated with lowered energy production in situations where both technologies produced maximum output?
There are few days in a year when maximum power output from a wind park and a solar park coincide (very windy days coinciding with very sunny days). In the situations where the maximum output of both technologies coincides, one of the two would need to be curtailed as the grid connection will not support both at maximum. How often do such situations occur? Which of the two technologies should you curtail and how often? What is the decrease in power produced and what is the loss in revenue? Can you still use the so called “SDE tracker” to de-risk your project and benefit from the subsidy?
We at Priogen have conducted a feasibility study with one of our partner companies. We used data from our own portfolio of wind and solar parks and scaled it to a 10 MW wind park, a 10 MVA connection and a 5 MW solar park. Here are our conclusions*
*all numbers stated are based on the example of a 10 MW wind park, a 5 MW solar park and a 10 MVA grid connection
Conclusions: